70 NATURAL HISTORY ESSAYS 



grass. Unfortunately, the males only inhabit Walrus 

 Island ; the females breed on the ice and never come 

 down to the Pribylovs. The reckless destruction 

 which has been waged for long years still threatens 

 these interesting creatures, and only too much 

 emphasis must be attached to the words of the 

 writer who, in 1879, accompanied the walrus hunters 

 to Cape Lisburne : "I advise all natural history 

 societies and museums to get a specimen while they 

 can." 



Extinctus amabitur idem. 



